Here is a list of a few awesome sites offering tools for learning Rails: PeepCode Pricing: Starts at $12 for one screencast; Twitter: @peepcode and @topfunky I bought my first PeepCode screencast back in 2008, before Rails and Merb merged. It’s been around for a while, but Geoffrey Grosenbach does a great job of keeping [...]
From time to time I’ve been recording voice memos. I find them to be valuable both when I record them, because I explore thoughts in a different way, and later, when I listen to them. It’s a convenient sort of diary for me. Here’s a snippet from a voice memo I recorded while I was [...]
Right now I’m studying the discipline of shipping, in several different ways: I read Linchpin and listened to the audiobook twice. I’m reading Ship It!, one of the early Pragmatic Programmer books. I watched Giles Bowkett’s Awesome Movie twice. I’m taking Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman’s Year Of Hustle Zero to Launch Course. I’m scouring [...]
I’ve seen more than one screencast where the narrator has invited me, the viewer, to pause the screencast to try going through the steps myself. Usually, the invitation is accompanied with the author saying that I’ll learn more if I do. Of course I’ll learn more, because I’ll spend more time watching the screencast. But [...]